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With a young baby, Jennifer Garner already had it tough with sleepless nights and breastfeeding.

So the mum to Violet, now 18 months, reveals it was even trickier to get stuck into some pretty dirty fight scenes for her latest movie Kingdom, reports People.com.

“It was so down and dirty, I had scratch marks that we had to cover up on my face for the next few days,” says the actress, who plays a US government agent sent to investigate a bombing in the Middle East action thriller, also starring Jamie Foxx.

She also had a few nasty scuffles with the actors who played the film’s baddies.

“One of them just tried to grab me and pull my face off,” she says. “But because I was breastfeeding, he had to stay away from my boobs. And he did. That was the one sacred thing. He could go for my head, pull my hair, just not the boobs.”

However, the actress’s husband, Ben Affleck, didn’t seem too concerned by the tough fight scenes when he visited Jennifer on set.

“He was just like, ‘Go for it, babe, harder!’,” she smiles. “I thought it would have made him a little bit nervous to see them chucking me against the wall, harder and harder with every take.”